Dark Souls 3 PC Cheater Spent Hours Streaming Their Exploits This Weekend
Dark Souls 3 PC has a big cheating problem, and it’s not getting better. PC players were furious this weekend, as a hacker spent hours streaming while they pulled players into their game and immediately killed them.
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Combined with precious little communication by From Software about Dark Souls 3 hacking, the “news” freaked the hell out of people. I didn’t report on it earlier, however, because I couldn’t verify it was anything more than a threat to sow fear and doubt into a confused community.
It only got worse during his livestream, where he bragged about softbanning people through the exploits he’d discovered. There was no evidence he was able to softban anyone, but the prospect was scary.
Again, to be clear: there is no evidence a player can outright softban you from the game by invading your game and attacking you.
A huge thread blew up on the official Steam forums for Dark Souls 3, prompting a developer at From Software to finally chime in about it.
“Hello everyone,” said Kimundi. “We have seen your reports and we are investigating this player.”
Not long after, Malcolm Reynolds posted a video saying they’d been banned from the Steam forums, but their account appears to remain active.